My Second Home - The Hospital

I am sure, my regular 'sickness' stories are irritating atleast for some of you…But what to do guys... somehow, I and a Hospital are like Twins… I have got many such twins… for eg; a headache and me are twins again…Somehow, I was a regular to end up at the hospital and to be precise at the Operation theatre…hehe!!! And some of the incidents are such hilarious happenings, that even when I was in pain, I couldn’t help laughing thinking how I ended up in tht state…

So…Today I suddenly remembered how often I used to reach those beautiful corridors of a hospital and how regular was I there…Uhm, I was so regular that once when I went to visit some sick person at a ward, the Nurses asked me… ”Hey dear, long time…u haven’t been here…When is your next visit…”…Uhm.. Cant blame her either...Hehe, I really helped that hospital earn a lot of money and thereby drained my dad’s person…

Now, I would like to share with you some such stories…Sorry guys, this could be long..bear with me…

The Pull-Out Pull

This is the one I remember earliest from my history with hospitals…Ok, now, from childhood, I have this habit of sleeping in one still position. I could sleep a whole night without even stirring a bit or moving my hand or legs…I was 8 years old then…I slept one whole night resting my head on my right hand…by next day morning…I was having acute pain at the shoulder joints…Now my dad, who had this regular joint pains had a number of Ayurvedic oils in stock..and he smeared one of it on my hand and did some massage and did some pulling-pushing…and I was done..my pain was gone…I was happy…and left for school…

By afternoon, my pain came back…and I knew exactly what to be done…I requested one of my friend to repeat what my dad did…I showed her a demonstration of how to pull the hand…and she did…Only issue was…Suddenly I heard a CLICK and then I found myself screaming…writhing in pain…I was rushed to the hospital…Diagnosis was that the hand came out from its natural socket and took its position outside the socket…the pain was horrible…

Result: To the Hospital…It took 3 months for the doctors to pull back the hand and put it back into position inside the socket…hehe!!!

The Race

This was a cool one and a good lesson learnt…Never cheat in a race…It was the day of a Political Bandh…the roads were empty and naturally we kids were on the road…We all decided to have a Running race…Everybody stood at one end – The Start point…One of the girl shouted…Readyy…Steadyyyy…Goooo…everybody got the head start except ME THE GREAT…Naturally, the ego in me grew…I said…NOOOOOOO…that’s wrong…I was not ready…Start again…I will count…” … Not so happy about it, still they had to agree to my words…they came back to the Start…We all stood…all set to run…I counted very slowly…. “READYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY…STTTTTTT….” I just kept on with that STTTTTT till the point the others were getting irritated…

And that one second, I suddenly finished my words… “STEADYYYYYY GO…” and ran…hehe!!! This time except me, none of them were ready…I ran forward and then stopped to turn and see my friends’ face…I did turn around and next moment, I found myself on the floor…Lol..while I turned my body, I forgot to turn my feet along with it…and I sprained my leg…rather, again a similar disaster..the joints came out of its socket…again…

Result : BACK AT THE HOSPITAL…

The Sky Watching

I was some 12-13 years old…Was playing with my childhood friend A at the back side of my house…We had lots of Coconut Trees all around the house…and we had already received a warning from Mom to be careful as it was time for plucking the coconuts…and MAYBE some of the Ripe one might fall out and so we were not supposed to be anywhere below any of the Coconut trees…We were obedient kids…We were roaming around all the Trees and inspecting if any of them is yet to fall off…

By the time we reached the front side of the house, I was proudly telling my friend… “Hey, A…do u know…imagine, we are looking at the sky with open mouth…and then a coconut fall into ur mouth…hahah!! How wonderful would it be na…”… and we both started laughing…bcoz we both were imagining one of common enemy doing that stuff…to make it more funny, I started acting out like an idiot looking up at the sky with open mouth…

Next I was going to act the way our enemy would talk…but before I could say another word… “Dooommmmmmmmmmm”…Actually I didn’t really hear anything else other than my own screaming…I couldn’t feel anything or see anything…All I knew was smthing had hit my upper lip and I felt as if the whole upper lip got cut off….hehehe!!

Much later, I understood, when I was standing there with open mouth doing Sky watching…a small Coconut (not the grown up..but just the Baby things…that usually fall prematurely from the tree…grr.. I don’t know a word for it…see the photo..)..Anyways, whtever it is fell on my face, to be precise, on my upper lip…Imagine, if it was a real coconut…godddd…!!! I wouldn’t have been alive today to share this story with u all…

Anyways Result: Back to Hospital to stitch up the wound…my upper lip looked more like a Balloon for days after that…

The Water Skating

I have hoards of such adventurous stories to share with you all..but maybe not possible in one post…So I wanna finish it with just one more which was a very recent addition to my list Hilarious Accidents…

So this happened maybe 1 year back…my son has already started walking or rather running…He learnt how to operate different things around the house..and one day, I was at the kitchen…as usual gossiping with Mom…Suddenly, I heard a splash of water….My son was missing and I knew it…the source and trigger for that sound…It was my son experimenting with the Hand water shower…he had just learnt how to use it….uhmm…

I was worried of him slipping inside the washroom and fall and hurt himself… I had to literally run to catch him…and then…Tadaaaaaaaa….the next moment, I found myself hitting the floor with my back and skidding across the corridor in a pool of water…I knew, it was my latest ticket to the Doctor's place...

So, it so happened, my son who was in the Washroom at the other end was splashing the water right into the corridor…Naturally a pool of water on tiles wouldn’t make it any better…Plus, I was running without even noticing what I was stepping into…and I fell…and…

Result: BACK TO THE HOSPITAL….

You tell me...What to Do...

So, packing is almost done…Oh yeah, I missed telling u all…I am travelling this week end..to my home town…and for some odd reason…I am not as excited as I used to be before…its just 4 more days to go and still the excitement fever hasn’t caught me…Not sure, exactly what is it that is keeping me from screaming Yoooooooooohhhoooooooooo…. I remember how my colleague was shouting when she was going on leave..and today, shes already back…and now its my turn to move…and I am still not so HIGH in my spirits about my travel after almost 2 years…

Mood swings were always part of me…Today, I will be absolutely calm and cool and the very next moment, you might find me in the deepest of OFF mood…At times, I wonder what happened to me…why am I feeling low now…some time back, I had written to u about one such day…But this time, its nothing of that sort…No mood swings that I can feel…I am absolutely fine, just that I am not able to be HAPPY about going back home…

I was wondering…WHYYY???I was just trying to analyse some of the possible reasons…See for yourselves how my thoughts travelled…

• DiL-MiL Issue - (for those of u who r thinking what is DiL-MiL - click here) I think, I should rate this as the TOP most probability for my non-excitement…Am I just getting uneasy of WHAT NEW issues can raise up this time…Oh, yes…every vacation, I somehow manage to earn some extra negative points in that issue…It is was for any specific reason, I can understand..but, if NO valid reason exists then how can a solution be found…Every time, some bitter behavior, comments, dialogues hurt the inner me and that increases the distance between the DiL-MiL hearts…uhmm…(now, that’s a long story…about my own DiL-MiL stories…some day, I would surely share one by one to you all…between, do keep in touch with this space, as I would try to update the most recent one as soon as I encounter them…)


• Air Fright - Lol!!! Am I worried of those recent air crashes…Is that eating away my excitement from somewhere inside me…??? Don’t think so..as I dint really think so big about such crashes…still some of the images that I have seen on the TV during those crashes had disturbed me really…So I was wondering, IF I WAS WORRIED IF I WILL LAND AT THE OTHER END…hahah!!!


• Lots to Do…But Less Time – Have so many things to be done this time…Lots of long distance travel involved..and less time…which would end up in NO QUALITY TIME with my loved ones back home…Especially my grandpa…(I haven’t told u abt him right…would do that soon…) So, with this less number of days, I have to give time to so many people, still will not be able to…and that is bothering me too…But is that the reason for my present state of mind..???


• Cancellation of Looked-Forward Plans – Oh, yes, I had planned to meet many long lost friends this time…and for some strange reason, it wouldn’t be happening this time also…Everybody is stuck at different places…and being a Festive Season, would be really difficult for each of us to meet up.That really irritates me…Not big a reason, right???


• NO SLEEP STATE – Ok, now, this could be a reason…somehow, from last 2 weeks, I couldn’t sleep well in the nights…I would be turning this side and that side through out the night…and then sit up cursing myself for not able to sleep…All that I could get was very short naps that would last 20-30 mts….and then again I would be awake…to be frank, I am TIRED bcoz f tht…the only time, tht I could sleep well was the 20 mts in the car, when I cm to office and my friend drives the car…and now, I am trying hard not to indulge myself in any conversation and deprive me of that 20 mts of sleep also…But trust me, I really doesn’t understand, WHY NO SLEEP is being blessed on me…


• Blocked Nose – Allergy on its heights…I cant take in a single puff of breadth when inside the confinements of an Air Conditioner…which is a complete YES-YES in this desert…Can’t stay without an AC and cant breath with one…that’s my present condition…Could that be the reason.. The sickness???

Anyways…I am confused…and tired…and sick…and worried…and upset…

You tell me...What to do???

I am Hungry....

I am sure, whenever you read my posts, you would be thinking how can I be soooo much dedicated to Health issues…what to do friends, somehow, I always end up having sm sort of injury or handicap situation in my life…if nothing else is wrong, atleast I will have blisters in my mouth, which I feel is the worst condition….

Maybe aftereffects of the medicines that I had, I started having small ulcers inside my mouth at different spots such as on the inside part of the lower lip, behind the cheeks etc…and last night I even dreamt that one of the Blister was so swollen up that it stood out like a teeth among all my other teeth…and I am anxiously showing that one Blister to my mom and trying to get some sympathy…now, u guys must be wondering why showing it to mom…

That’s another issue…My mom has been having smalls wounds on her tongue…due some odd reason, she bit into her own tongue…I guess she was just trying eat every bit of the meat piece she cooked last week…anyways…now this wounds really hurt, I KNOW…who else would know…OK, sorry guys, let me just track my memories to a past incident…

Years back, maybe I was some 10 years or something…I was taken to a Dentist…and he very artistically pluck off one of my tooth…and as u know, during the first few hours, you wouldn’t feel anything due to the anaestasia..but once the effect starts subsiding, the pain would slowly get to us…and same with me…the effect of the anaestasia was slowly going down and I could feel a slight piercing pain inside my mouth…At that moment, I wished if I could just press my teeth hard against that area so that pain would subside a bit…I tried once, I closed my teeth against each other…I could feel myself biting at the Cotton swab that was still in that area where my dear tooth once lived…I couldn’t feel much of the texture or anything…Just that I could feel the thick round stuff inside my mouth and very often I was biting on it…It felt good…

By next day, slowly, with Pain Killers, the pain in the area went off and the bleeding was gone…and I threw off the Cotton swab…and then I was in for a shock…one side of my tongue was completely ruined…wounded till core…Little did I know, that what I was biting thinking it was cotton was nothing other than MY OWN TONGUE…With the anaestasia off, for days….I was in hell….Couldnt even taste a glass of water…that was my condition…I drooled when others had delicious food…I had to keep my tongue out most of the time and I looked more like a Dog than a Human being who was hungry….uhmmm…

Ok, now back to my story…so my mom had these wounds on her tongue and she was complaining abt it to me…and then I was complaining back to her about the blisters inside my mouth…and argued that they were equally painful…and Mom argued that the Tongue’s wound are more painful…

Now this is yesterdays case…Today morning, I woke up to find myself having wounds in my tongue…It hurts …Only thing is that the first thing I did in the morning today was to go and declare to mom that after all “I SUFFER MORE PAIN…”..She laughed seeing the wounds in my tongue…WAS SHE HAPPY??? Grrr….Atleast, I won the competition between us…buttttttt…now…. I haven’t had breakfast today as even a glass of water is hurting me…so forget lunch also…What to do NOW???? I am hungryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…and I CAN’T EATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT…

And now, I am imagining myself eating….Chicken Biriyani, Squid Roast, Spicy Egg Masala, Mutton Chops, Banana Milk Shake, Coconut Soufle, Biscuit Pudding…hey how can I forget my favourites…

Rasagullas and Gulab Jamuns and Caramel Custard and…

I AM HUNGRYYYYYYY.....

Me and my Eyes...!!!

Ha…the last two weeks can be clearly dedicated to the Health Industry…I have been literally in an out of the hospitals for all the odd reasons…either for my son…or myself…and this time, my son didn’t take much chance and he cured himself by the second day…but myself…haaaaaaaa…especially this week, I have seen three different doctors and Poor Poor, The Insurance Company…I am on of those customers from whom they can never get any profit…haha!!! I am sure, my personal file in their records now might have already crossed thousands of pages..or maybe even Novels or Epic sized…lol!!!

So what happened to me was…My son got a fever from somewhere…from where never actually matters to both of us…Bcoz, if a fever is walking almost 50kms away from us, we would make sure that it gives us a visit without fail…and so naturally, I had to run to the hospital with my son…Eventhough his body temperature showed fever, his spirit was still high and he was as usual naughty and badmash…With medicines, his temperature also was controlled…But then the obvious thing to happen…I fell sick…and the more obvious thing, that medicines usually works on me but….

What was this but??? I can explain…My fever was gone in one day…but…it was the starting point of many other visitors…Oh yes, first of all came in the Viral Conjunctivits…for which I saw a doctor near my office…and once it was confirmed I had a very very mild form of Conjunctivitis, my office mates got scared out of their chairs…They dint tell me GET OUT…but they did really wish they could shout that on my face…feeling insulted I slowly left the office…One day at home…and then back to work…with the medicines, things were under control…

Not for long…after two days, symptoms came back..and this time a new doctor confirmed the Conjunctivitis got Severe…Ofcourse, how can the thing go off from me in a mild form…IT HAD to be severe…so another set of medicines…and again I was in the GET OUT mode at office..and I kept myself away from my office…grrr..Another day off from work…Again, I came to office after the one day break…The ONE LADY at my office dint spare anything to make me feel as if I came in from some UNTOUCHABLE Category…grrrrrrrr…still I hung around the office till afternoon…by which my eye pain suddenly shooted…

My boss was happy to let me go..(naturally he was scared that his whole department might have to close down due Conjunctivitis…but then my Doctor had very clearly said, NO need to fear of any spreading as it was already past that stage…but, then none of them really belived the doctor’s words…) So for the third time, I went to the same doctor…he gave me some pain killers…and asked to observe for two days to confirm that it is not some new infection…I was happily given another day off from work…THEY REALLY DINT WANT ME..uhmmm…??? L

So, I stayed home again….till afternoon, everything was normal…exactly by evening, suddenly my eyes started itching and it got all reddened and wrinkled…MY doctor was off duty…gosh!!! Now what…naturally a new doctor…another routine check up…Finally confirmed… “Conjunctivitis has left me…But…it has instigated the allergies and so some Nodules in the eyes are all protruding and giving me the itching feeling…”

Thanks to my allergy…All bcoz of one fever I got…grrrr…Now the scenario is…I got a fever, which instigated the Viral Conjunctivitis in Mild form which got Sever and slowly instigated the Allergy and has finally ended up in Severe Allergy….Anyways…by night, I called my boss on phone…ASSUREDDDD him that I no longer have any infection and I AM NOT CONTAGIOUS….lol… and I am coming back to office (Was I warning him or threatening him…he might have thought atleast that much…haah)

Soooo…today, I am back in the office…The ONE Lady in my office still stares at me as if I was bitten by the MAD DOG and I might bite her any moment (not that I don't feel like doing so)…I DON’T CARE….atleast I am telling myself…haha!!! I have slight pain in my eyes…but then its fine…atleast I am succeeding wonderfully in irritating that ONE LADY…lol!!!

Long Live Me and my Eyes…!!!